Baby Sleeping through the night? How? When?

[EllaWt]

My 7 week old sleeps in longer stretches during the night ... sometimes 6/7 hours so I was wondering if we should start guiding her towards sleeping through the night or at least guide the stretch toward more sociable hours (currently about 10pm to 4am)

When did your babies sleep through the night? How did you do it?

She was eleven weeks. She just did it...

I dont think you can make them do it. They will just do it when they're ready.

FWIW my son is 9 months and doesnt do it. He has a party from 1 - 3am every morning.

Mine is just one and occasionally does it. In my experience we couldn't 'guide' anything, the only way we could change her sleep was sleep training which isn't for everyone I know, but your LO won't be old enough for for a while.

My son started sleeping 4 till 4 at about 6 months and that lasted untill about 9 months. Was hard but atleast it was a big chunk so I just went to bed early. We managed to push his bed time back gradually later and later. Lockdown #1 really helped us get into a routine as we couldn't go anywhere so his day was so structured. Now he is 19 months and sleeps 6pm to 7am.
When he was tiny like your baby every night was different. I think it's quite rare to have a baby under 5 months sleep through the night to be fair.

Gosh you’re so lucky. My seven week old feeds every 3 hours!

Sadly, you’re setting yourself up for potential major disappointment as sleep regressions are brutal and often.... so I wouldn’t be thinking about when will they sleep through I would be enjoying the sleep you are currently getting.

My 2 year old sometimes sleeps through

How do you guide a 7wo to sleep more at night? They wake when they are hungry and they sleep when they are tired surely?

Ahh, OP. The issue is with this question:

'How did you do it?'

No parent does it. The baby does. And it's up to them when they do it. As an aside, it's likely to all go to shit at four months when they hit the regression anyway, so I'd not waste your time at this point. You've got a good sleeper- be grateful.

Dd - 5½months
Ds - 8 months

Your baby is tiny so don't expect too much from them sleep wise

When? 14 months old.

How? Patience.

At this age sleep is anything but consistent.

My youngest was sleeping 10-5 most nights by 8 weeks. But even this wasn't set in stone and changed with each leap and growth spurt (she was EBF in case anyone thinks it's impossible for an ebf baby)

Enjoy the rest for now and see how it goes

11 weeks here as well! He kind of just did it himself really, he only ever really woke once anyway after the first couple of weeks for a 2am feed (would feed at 10pm, 2am and 6am) and he just dropped the 2am one. One night he woke at 2am but I could tell he wasn't hungry so I soothed him back to sleep and he didn't wake again until 6 so obviously didn't need the middle of the night feed any more. So after that we didn't feed him in the night and he stopped waking up! He was ff though so it was easy to tell that he had had enough. We just brought his last feed earlier and earlier until he was sleeping 7pm - 6.30am. Most of that was probably just luck though...

My first was about fifteen months and just started doing it himself. The second decided at seven months, he liked food so much, he wasn’t interested in milk and just stopped waking for it.

My 7 week old will have a last feed at 12 ( courtesy of COD from my partner ) and then will sleep to 7 and then I get up with my toddler.

Can't get him down in his cot before then ☹️ they really do do it in their own terms. You will get there !

DD had a brief spell of it at 7 months then stopped until 9 months. Had a few regressions since. DS is 10 months and still waiting. 10-4 at 7 weeks is really good; not sure I’d mess with that to be honest especially as at that age the majority of babies need to feed in the night

My 8 month old still doesn't sleep through. Sleep is not consistent with babies, it changes all the time. I'd enjoy the sleep you are getting rather than hoping your tiny baby will start sleeping through! Having very low expectations helps I find

5 and at full time school. Complete, total, absolute non sleeper at all ever.

I’ll just leave that there.

Good luck!

From the week she turned 5 months, but sleep development is not linear and she has had more unsettled periods since then (early wakings, resettles because of illness etc.). I think we were just pretty luck tbh - you can't 'make' them sleep through the night; however, she had a dummy, a muslin comforter and I don't mind a bit of grumbling/shouting when settling for the night, though I would always go to a distressed cry.

Just go with it for now - you may get regressions, or you may not. Best not to set up an expectation either way.

4 years.

My first was about 2years, but not reliably.

Second did it at 8 weeks for about a week! At 8 months she was back on 2 hourly feeds throughout 24 hour day.

It's all a phase....

My baby slept through from about 4 weeks - I'm talking 10 hour stretches with no wakes. I knew it wouldn't last lol so I just enjoyed it whilst it did.

She stopped at about 13 weeks and now wakes up every few hours. I do nothing different so I know it's just what babies do at this age, regressions, leaps, spurts etc. Make the most out of the sleep you get and don't try to force anything.

My daughter was sleeping amazingly until this week when she has hit 4 months and it's very much gone south. Despite my best efforts of getting 'good sleep habits'. I think some are just more natural sleepers than others - I know my nephews slept through from 4 months. I'm just trying to keep consistent but go with the flow and hope it's a phase. My son started sleeping better at 6 months, and then we sleep trained at about 8 when he started waking every hour for his dummy, so might end up doing the same type of thing if no natural improvement this time round.

7 - 15 weeks then it all went up the wall until 17 months. It was exhausting.